places to go…

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2121 El Cajon Blvd., (North of) North Park, (but not University Heights) San Diego
This place was one of the first places that caught my eye over on this very blue collar commercial El Cajon Boulevard area. It’s just down from “Lusti Motors” and “Subway” and up from […]

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Urban Grind
3799 Park Blvd, Hillcrest/North Park division point, San Diego
I discovered this little place one Sunday night, disparaged by the Starbuck’s on the corner as my only option for a light dinner/caffeine fix. Just past Cafe on Park, which I’m sure I’ll get to shortly. This little place has a mid-intersection crosswalk right in front […]

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Uncle Biff’s, California’s Killer Cookies
650 University Av, Hillcrest, San Diego
This is, amazingly enough, a business, in a shopping center, selling about 12 different cookies, for $1.50 from about 10am-5pm, no Sundays, and somehow, they keep the doors open, why? I think it’s really because Hillcrest <3’s cookies. NYC has cupcakes, we have KILLER COOKIES (and […]

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Carlsbad French Pastry Cafe
1005 Carlsbad Village Dr, Carlsbad
Elysa Cafe
3076 Carlsbad Blvd, Carlsbad
What can I say? If you’re in the area. You must go. I’m smitten. I’d give better links if it was Google searchable. These restaurants are somehow linked, though only some of the staff seems to know it. They are, less than 2 miles […]

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Martha’s Country Bakery
70-30 Austin St, Forest Hills
36-21 Ditmars, Astoria
Okay, just moving here from the South… okay the really suburban college town South, I have found more bakeries than I know what to do with (although I have some ideas for some of them…). Down in the crazy ol’ south of NC, I had this Guglhupf, […]

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